This album, comprised of 50 pages on which 218 photographs are mounted, follows the evolution of the Consolidated mining camp built outside of Fort Smith. The album begins with the site of the proposed camp and ends with the pouring of the first gold brick a little over a year after the initial construction began. There is also a page of airplanes chartered by the U.S.S.R. government to search for lost Russian flyers; party led by Sir Hubert Wilkins. Photos by Consolidated Mining from summer 1937 to summer 1938.
The following places can be found in the album: Consolidated mining property for campsite; Fort Smith, N.W.T.; Prosperous Lake; Yellowknife; Yellowknife Bay and River; temporary campsite.
Almost all of the events relate to the building of the camp at Consolidated mining. Here is a list of all the buildings or structures being constructed: mill; camp light plant house; headframe; cook house; machine shop; packing house; extension to power house; garage; bunkhouses; general office; extension to mill power house; heavy hardware house; apartment building; extension of assay office; powder magazine; water tank tower.
Other events: unloading bags of sand from a scow; planes searching for lost Russian flyers; repairing skids under ball mill; mine car dumping into coarse ore bin; airplanes landing; laying out mine shaft; unloading livestock for Consolidated (Fort Fitzgerald); pouring first gold brick in the north.
The following objects can be found in the album: Northern Prospector, vessel; barges; CF-AVI airplane, company airplanes; boiler; filter; monument of 50th parallel, N.W.T. and AB; British Elect motor; Prospector, vessel; Eldorado Radium-Silver Express airplane (McKenzie Air Service); M.L. Peter Pond boat; concrete mixer; mine shaft; portal to underground tunnel; ball mill; giant Ruston 10 HRC; H.B. Distributor; engines and compressors; main switchboard in power house; drugstore, Yellowknife; pipe trestle, from mine to camp; oil tank and transformer station; hummer screen; M.V. "Saskalta" and M.L. "Vic", boats; pipe culvert; superintendent's residence; damaged road to docks (dropped 50 feet); Rycon bin building.
The following people can be found in the album: W.G. Jewitt, esq., C.M. & S. Coy; construction workers; audience at first gold brick pouring; miners.
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